Private equity investment criteria : an experimental conjoint analysis of venture capital, business angels, and family offices

We use an experimental conjoint analysis to investigate the investment criteria of 749 private equity investors, distinguishing between family offices, business angels, venture capital funds, growth equity funds, and leveraged buyout funds. Our results indicate that revenue growth is the most important investment criterion, followed by the value-added of product/service, the management team's track record, and profitability. Regarding differences across investor types, we find that family offices, growth equity funds, and leveraged buyout funds place a higher value on profitability as compared to business angels and venture capital funds. Venture capital funds, in turn, pay more attention to companies' revenue growth, business models, and current investors. With these results, our study contributes to the corporate finance literature by deepening our understanding of how different types of private equity investors make investment decisions

Multigroup diagnostic classification with a new 'maximal' lead system

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The signal content of three corrected orthogonal lead systems with respect to total body information

This study deals with the comparison of 3 corrected orthogonal lead systems and total electrical body information. It demonstrates that one of the 3 systems can be used to recover all the electrical information present on the thorax.SCOPUS: ar.jSCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

Relationship between best fit coefficients and lead vectors

Best fit coefficients are calculated according to a method of the least squares. These coefficients are found to be related to volume conducting properties in the zones of good fit.SCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe